Let's notify the maintainer to use an ordinary minus sign: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ranges-0.2.3
my "scan" program (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/scan) reports: Ranges.hs:12:9: undesirable character '\t' Ranges.hs:12:51: undesirable character '\226' Ranges.hs:12:52: undesirable character '\128' Ranges.hs:12:53: undesirable character '\147' Cheers Christian Am 22.01.2011 18:33, schrieb Donn Cave: >> For me, that's an en-dash (U+2013 / '\8211'). >> I believe something on your box mangled the UTF-8 encoding. > > When I saw this last night, I looked out of curiosity and saw > the same thing, as my browser rendered the source with a dash. > > My thought was that this morning, someone would be embarrassed > to see that he or she had gratuitously, but accidentally, made > use of an exotic character when an ordinary 7 bit ASCII equivalent > would have been fine and foolproof. I.e., it's a coding error, > which we found out about thanks to Mr. Gray's platform encoding > problem. Wrong again? > > Donn _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
